| Title: | Marisa Madieri, Jan Morris and Irena Žerjal : English, Istrian Triestine and Slovene literarisation of Trieste and the surrounding area at the end of World War II |
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| Authors: | ID Toroš, Ana (Author) |
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| Files: |  https://zdjp.si/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ASHS_31-2021-3_Toro%C5%A1.pdf
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Unknown |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | UNG - University of Nova Gorica
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| Abstract: | This paper analyses the ways in which the town of Trieste and its surrounding area are portrayed in literary
works in the period following World War II. To this end, we have adopted a comparative approach in analysing
three novels about the town of Trieste written by Irena Žerjal, Marisa Madieri and Jan Morris, belonging to different
cultural and language traditions. Our analysis applied an interdisciplinary approach; geocriticism and literary imagology as well as the concepts of traumatic collective memory and postmemory. From a geocritical perspective,
we have interpreted the literarisation of the town of Trieste from three different perspectives: the perspective of a
Slovene author (Irena Žerjal); the Western-European perspective (Jan Morris); and the exile’s perspective (Marisa
Madieri). All three authors adopt a similar approach in their literary representations of the town of Trieste, namely
going back in time, which allows them to shift the action from the present to the past, i.e. to Trieste as they knew it
in their youth. In doing so, each author focuses on a different part of town. In those rare occurrences where action
is set in the same places, each author ascribes a different meaning to the location. While the authors acknowledge
the presence of the Other in Trieste, this has a negligible impact on the novel’s course of action. |
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| Keywords: | Marisa Madieri, Irena Žerjal, Jan Morris, Trieste |
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| Year of publishing: | 2021 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 475-486 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 31, št. 3 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUNG-7127  |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 91966979 |
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| UDC: | 82.0 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1408-5348 |
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| DOI: | 10.19233/ASHS.2021.30 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:TLJTHFED |
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| Publication date in RUNG: | 04.01.2022 |
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